Verification or verify may refer to:

General

  • Verification and validation, in engineering or quality management systems, is the act of reviewing, inspecting or testing, in order to establish and document that a product, service or system meets regulatory or technical standards
  • Verification (spaceflight), in the space systems engineering area, covers the processes of qualification and acceptance
  • Verification theory, philosophical theory relating the meaning of a statement to how it is verified
  • Third-party verification, use of an independent organization to verify the identity of a customer
  • Authentication, confirming the truth of an attribute claimed by an entity, such as an identity
  • Forecast verification, verifying prognostic output from a numerical model
  • Verifiability (science), a scientific principle
  • Verification (audit), an auditing process

Computing

  • Punched card verification, a data entry step performed after keypunching on a separate, keyboard-equipped machine, such as the IBM 056 Verifier
  • Verification and validation (software)
  • Account verification, verifying that an account is owned by a real person or organization

Applications

  • CAPTCHA, device to verify that a user of a website is human, to prevent automated abuse
  • File verification, checking the formal correctness or integrity of a file
  • Speech verification, checking of the correct speaking of given sentences
  • VERIFY (DOS command)
  • GOV.UK Verify, identity assurance system in the United Kingdom

Software development

  • Formal verification, mathematical proof of the correctness of algorithms
  • Intelligent verification, automatically adapts the testbench to changes in RTL
  • Runtime verification, during execution
  • Software verification, an overview of techniques for verifying software

Circuit development

  • Hardware verification
  • Functional verification of design of digital hardware
  • Analog verification, applies to analog or mixed-signal hardware
  • Physical verification, design of a circuit

See also

  • Validation (disambiguation)
  • Verifiable computing
  • Verification bias, a type of measurement bias
  • Verified, a UN program against COVID-19-related misinformation
  • Verifier (disambiguation)
  • Measurement and verification